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Bellagio Fountains Recreated with Mentos and Coke
Trip writes "What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It's amazing and completely insane. The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser, and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. Over one hundred jets of soda fly into the air in less than three minutes. It's a hysterical and spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas."
Even our good old Taco has done one (with Chris Dibona and a couple of others)
Its available on google video, but tacos Journal entry is here
This fountain on eepy is amazing though, read the rest of the site because they give a decent explaination of how it works and the various other parameters (hole size, capsule construction)
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I had always assumed it was chemical. Interesting.
You've given me an idea - I wonder if there is some way to suspend a substance within the fluid and create these nucleation sites simultaneously throughout the supersaturated medium?
Perhaps some kind of ferrofluid? So you could run a magnetic field over it and cause the nucleation sites to appear which would cause the reaction to happen on a much more instant scale: read, explosive.
Now, if only I had the material, and the knowledge, and the friends at MIT.
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Sugar in regular cola makes sticky mess - the diet version doesn't.
Oh well, what the hell...
Cool.
Since the Mentos are also heavy enough to sink, they react with the soda all the way to the bottom.
Leads me to the next thing to try: irregularly-shaped Mentos that would spiral down through the soda, instead of falling straignt down. I assume that the guys in the video used 2-litre bottles in order to give the Mentos the greatest possible falling path? A spiral path would have the effect of using bottles 2 or 3 times larger. Just gotta call up Mentos and ask for their rejected candies!
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http://www.fhmus.com/articles-1276.asp
If you've seen the episode of Mr. Wizard's World, he did this with an ultrasonic cleaner like they have in jewelry stores. Works about as well as the Mentos.
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I don't think it really matters, but the zeolite used in sorbtion pumps has a surface area of almost 1000 m^2 for every cc. A very small amount of this stuff, no one will notice is is missing, and there are nucleation sites galor. It might even sink to the bottom.
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Can be science, can be fun, can be both - as tagged.
.33 l bottles, though.
I used to do this some 30+ years ago, while in primary school. Every day after school few of us would go to the corner shop, buy coke and pepermints and organise competition - everybody drops a mint into the bottle and whoever spils the least amount of coke, gets the next bottle purchased by the others. It's possible not to spil coke at all but terribly hard. We used
This video content doesn't really fall under "science" (white labcoats don't mean it's "science").
It really is more an example of the kind of new business models for video: low cost productions, free distribution, and web supported advertising. And the content is of a form where nobody really would want to bother redistributing it without advertising.
It's actually not all that different from the original business model of network television, although it is arguably a more "creative" and "innovative" than a lot of what we get on television today.
I am sure the sales of Mentoes and diet Pepsi or Coke are going to spike after this video spreads on the InterNet. A trick to be shown at all the family picnics this Summer.
PineSol + Clorox + Aluminum cans cut into strips in a 3 litre bottle = fireworks...
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